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5th Avenue was a disaster today. Unacceptable. With Bloomberg, the streets in Manhattan were dry shortly after a snow storm.
Manhattan is the economic center of the world and it should be treated as such, Bill.
Actually, you are right. I was surprised. In Manhattan snow covered the streets, while around my way the main avenues were clean, all you saw was blacktop.
Church Street in Tribeca looked just like the secondary street I live on in Queens.
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Boo Hoo!
How quickly the Bloomberg mishandling of the Christmas blizzard of 2010 when he had already been mayor for 9 years is forgotten. His plane was spotted in the Bahamas while the cleanup took days.
Yes, I saw snow out there today but no streets that had not been plowed at least once. It's very cold and it's not going to just disappear. The salt doesn't work too well in severe cold. The storm only ended Friday morning for crying out loud!
Saturday will be blacktop everywhere except E79 between Madison & 5th.
It was a holiday week. People had scheduled annual, which means lack of manpower. He's been in office less than a week and there's comparison to a 12 year mayor. LMAO
Perhaps this is Bill's first message to the elite: You'll pay for the services, but not have any priority on receiving them!
Actually, I seriously doubt that the new mayor has any input on snow cleanup, except for outside his front door.
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Originally Posted by Taxi guy
Bloomberg mishandling of the Christmas blizzard of 2010 ... His plane was spotted in the Bahamas while the cleanup took days.
A few days into the transition and during the holidays--he should probably get a pass. It wasn't armageddon and not by a long shot. Probably the worse that can happen is to try to cripple the new mayor before he even really has his footing. Basically, I'm saying this topic is garbage for now unless this piles on in the months to come.
The plows only get be snow down to about 1-2 inches and the salt and calcium chloride goes through that down to the blacktop, at temps right aroun 4 degrees it's too cold for the salt and CC to take effect, that's why your still seeing snow on the streets in manhattan, very simple explonation, had nothing to do with diblasio, DSNY was at full man power with all equipment dedicated to snow removal. The plow could go down 100 times it still won't be blacktop until the temps rise a bit. But your right, it's diblasios fault.
I don't think it is the fault of the new mayor. There were wind gusts and abnormally cold temperatures which hindered the normal snow removal.
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